Writings

What is Our Business Here?

November 2025

The universe may be revealed by chemistry and physics, but that only tells us how we got here, not why we are here. At the limit of human intelligence we accept that we are beneficiaries of evolutionary randomness, yet we entertain the idea of Intelligent Design. We know that we do not make objective cosmic difference but assume we matter to a sovereign entity. In the spirit of self-interest and to combat boredom we invented, from our consciousness, meaning and morals and love, and elevated them to a status higher than nature, only to grapple with an indifferent universe and its owner, supposing there is one. Unable to deal with such a conflict and the excess doubt it brings, we conceived the narrative of good and evil and convinced ourselves that we are here to train.

But our existence is far from arbitrary. As the famous Christian mathematician John Lennox said while science may tell you that the water is boiling because of heat and atmospheric pressure and molecules, the water is boiling because someone wants a cup of tea. Scientific explanation is only one of many explanations, which is revealed by the tea illustration to be not at odds but perhaps in cahoots with God.

Why does God want a cup of tea then?

The Measure of “Christianess”

September 2025

It is perhaps owing to the deceit or strength of knowledgeable civilisations and their invented forms of thought that have dominated our morality both secular and religious that we now seek to express and explain religious belief, especially the Judeo-Christian faith, primarily through the utility of altruistic and anti-Dionysian actions that manifest as an imposing propagandistic lifestyle of converting non-believers and conquering outsiders.

The foremost quality of Judaism that embodied prostrating and obsequious attitudes for self-awareness is lost on its modern counterpart. Christianity, a flattened idea of Judaism, is a loud, self-assuring (opposite of self-awareness) form of religion that emphasises on outward performance and the sanctification of others. I am inclined to think of this departure as a pronounced indication of the human nature (who will conquer who) than a corruption of original faith.